Four men accused in the deadly gang rape of a 23 year old woman found guilty. Julie Noce reports.

Minutes later, the prosecutor called for all four to be hanged

It was not clear which of the four men was shouting, because his face was obscured behind the police van's heavy metal mesh, but he repeatedly called out, "I am innocent! I am innocent!" as the van drove past a scrum of reporters.

A court convicted the men Tuesday in the December gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a moving New Delhi bus, a brutal crime that galvanized public anger over the sexual violence faced by Indian women. The woman died two weeks after the attack.

Another, Vinay Sharma, was a 20-year-old assistant at a gym and the only one of the attackers to graduate from high school.

Akshay Thakur, 28, occasionally worked as a driver's helper on the bus. Pawan Gupta, 19, was a fruit seller.

Defence lawyer V. K Anand says his client will appeal his sentence as he comes out of an Indian court after a judge convicted four men in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)Source: AP

With them on the bus were two other men.

Police say Ram Singh, 33, hanged himself in prison, though his family insists he was murdered.

He was the brother of Mukesh Singh, who was convicted Tuesday.

Another man - an 18-year-old who was a juvenile at the time of the attack and cannot be identified under Indian law - was convicted in August and will serve the maximum sentence he faced, three years in a reform home.

Indian protesters stage a mock hanging scene to demand the death sentence for four men convicted of the fatal gang rape of a young woman on bus in December last year in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)Source: AP

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